Blog #5: Swatchey Schemey
For my brochure project, I decided to base my swatches and tints off of a photo of a showroom I took at High Point Furniture Market, where I interned this past fall. I chose this picture because there are three main colors that really speak out to me in this photo: cream, brown, and green. I thought that these colors looked really nice placed together, and that they would also create really nice tints that I could use for my final brochure project as well. When starting to create my 9-color swatch on Indesign, it proved to be much easier than I thought. When I used the eye dropper tool over my original inspiration photo, the eye dropper tool picked the exact color to swatch that I was hovering over! I first learned how to do this in class, but when I sat down to do the color swatch on my own, I struggled to remember some of the steps to take in order to correctly create my color swatch. Luckily, the videos for Week 11, titled "Editing Content", reminded...
